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The sow’s ear comes second, second last

By The Basa ⋅ November 17, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Current Lord Provost Lesley Hinds’ popularity was clear for all to see when she came second last in the fight down in the east of Edinburgh for the some to become the Susan Deacon’s successor and possibly loose the seat of Edinburgh East and Musselburgh for the labour party next year.
The pisspoor turnout at the [...]

Councillor Tench or is that Nolan

By The Basa ⋅ November 6, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Paul Nolan does not go away quietly, in fact whist the population of Edinburgh are wondering who dodgy Councillor Tench in the new Ian Rankin book “The Naming of the Dead” is, the locals down in greater Craigmillar have the dodgy councillor down as a carbon copy of disgraced ex-councillor, disgraced community councillor and disgraced [...]

What really happened down East?

By The Basa ⋅ October 18, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

So that readers and citizens are not truly swayed by last night’s Evening News story ( http://www.scotsman.com/?id=1538292006 ) on the the contest to become candidate for Labour’s safest seat in the Capital where they mention that it is really down to two candidates, here is the skinny.
The seat is being fought tooth and nail and favours [...]

Make an FOIA request and you are a paedophile

By The Basa ⋅ July 21, 2006 ⋅ One comment

It seems down Craigmillar way that if you dare to ask a financially dodgy and much complained against local charitable outlet for more information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) you could end up being abused by the outlet and it being insuinated by the director that you are a paedophile.
The following email (with [...]

Rosendale contributed to Craigmillar Childcare Services Fiasco

By The Basa ⋅ July 17, 2006 ⋅ One comment

For the third time in two years, Craigmillar Childcare Services who have received almost one million pounds in public funding is ready to go bust. The latest revelations come on the heel of senior officials of Children & Families meeting with Ms. King to try and sort out the latest crisis.
The project which run by [...]

Unusually, THANK YOU councillors

By The Basa ⋅ July 14, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The shredding of democracy in Craigmillar has seemingly now been stopped and the unconstitutional meeting for the first community council meeting that was held on Tuesday which saw Nolan’s cabal voted in by themselves will now be reversed as Mike Bell, the returning officer, will find out when he opens his mail at Crapacity Building [...]

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